New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-05
FELLOWS, TWEED AND POKER
NE TAKES THE GREAT THI2FS MONEY.

PLEADING THE "BABy ACE" FOR A GAMBLING
CHrCK
ryo most damaging exposures striking directly and
attn deadly rin: ~ the heart OF Coone! fel"w9s
character made pIbc yesterday One was pfih'e"
IN The World and it shows the Colonel as poker player
who loses money CARTS gives promssory note cover
ING his dishouors the D0c, sets up us deehce III
law to recover lie amount of the rspudated
,ote the claim that IT, gambling daot ana tAcie-
fore not legally collectable and finally gives chccS lot
mart Of the debt bank where he las 10 funds to his
credit.
and s accompanied by fac-simile cuts OF the repudated
,o.c and the discarded check. The bearing OF this dis
closure upon Mayor ewits written Endorsement o the
Celop,rs SIMPLE Christian life is obvious IL VIII
doubtless afford the Mayor additional reason for regard
ing Mr. Fellows as a "coadjutor" upon whom he can
implicitly rely
The poker game in which luck was SO bad with Colonel
Follows was PLAYED during the Tweed epech when the
peoples millions played al hide and seek among the
jackets OF Albany statesmen and fortunes were MADE
and lost poker night The Colonel was an aept
AT the game. which he played ina simple CHRISTIAN
way as the Mayor would put II. very frequently One
night in 1875 poker party ade up on the Albany
oat consisting OF General spnoia Sidney T. Nichols,
"Dck" Flanagan. colonel Fellows and AssemblymSh
George stau When the chips were alln at the close
Of the game the Colonel was in Mr. stans cest In the
OF $50. lie dld not pay, nut Plonieo'
10 do so later After months OF delay staun obtained
pote drawn nine months for the debt and when c
due IL was not settled.
HIS ASTONISHING FLEA FOR NOT PAYING
staun's appeals for the money being unavming' he
brought suit and the Cooners defence was IN these
terms:
First Said promssory note was not made and delive
10 plaintiff good aud valuable consideration Ou
that the made ana delivered 10 pIah'u loi
debt incurred by defendant at the ulue ana ID uao
hereinafter shown.
Secomd. That prior to or about the time that SAID
prom!ssory note made the plantln ana ueichu1h u
played together with cards al game OF enuro
poker stakes npon credit and not FOR ready a'ncS
and that at said game OF chance the pai,'i IN Wa
from defendant the sum OF money mehusheu III s"i'
COMPLAINT which defendant did not the" pay ,.,,,.
Third, That thereafter the defendant mage am on
o plaintiff the promssory no'e III sAIu YUM
plant mentioned for the money so staked ana oSt; ~
Wherefore. defendant demands that said COMPANY oe
dismissed and that the plaintiff pay the costs aha os
bursements of this action
or course the defence sufficient Poker debts are
debts of honor or not debts at all The man whose
simple Christian" way OF looking at things admits OF
his repudiatng a poker debt. can do so.
The Colonels list OF judgments 10; augmented by
Mr.. stauffs claim After the suit failed, Mr. Fellows
far enough toward the redemption OF his honor TO
give Mr. staun check on Continental National Bank
for $3.50 returned at the bank with the lnforma
ton that it was good" The check and note are both
In The Worlds possess sion, and il offers 10 sell them az a
liberal discount
BrGGING MONEY FROM TWEED.
The second disclosure, which is male by The Times.
Is even more serious Ii shows that on the
day after William NJ Twceds first trial. in which the jury
disagreed Colonel Fellows, who had retired from the
District Attorneys Office only month before AMI who
ND 10 his retirement had had official connection with
the prosecution of Tweed, the great boss roboer
the letter: